What is happening in your classroom? Please share your projects with us!
Advanced Latin:
To practice using Keynote and "grabbing" the appleTV screen, all the students created a simple presentation about an endangered species with some slides in Latin. They worked during class when they had finished other work as individuals. At the end of each month, the students present their work in The Pike Family Conference Room to anyone interested. I will try to post one here.
For the month of October, students are using an electoral map of The United States and predicting the outcome of the upcoming election based on the Latin mottoes of 5 different states. I am limiting the number of slides to 6 and the number of states to predict to 5 since I want everyone to practice presenting. I promised to post the most accurate prediction once the election occurs! Anyone is invited to the presentations, Period B on 10/29 and Period G on 10/30. (1 time per month) Heidi
Advanced Latin:
We listen to world news in Latin! yle.fi/radio1/tiede/nuntii_latini but it wont work on the iPads because it needs flash to work. The students have bookmarked the site and read along on their iPads while I plug in the school laptop to the TV Screen and some speakers. We listen at the beginning of the week and students choose a section of words to pronounce and read to me at the end of the week. The only thing that's tricky is the directions of the website (in another language that is not Latin, maybe Finnish), I just use the symbols of the speaker to play the news. (1 time per week) Heidi
Advanced Latin:
The students are investigating "Virtual History Roma" ($4.99) in class. We put the image on the TV Screen and explore one chapter per week. There are many features in the app including timelines, map overlays, 3D models, and The Bubble Viewer which puts the students inside a bubble and provides visual experinces in 360 degrees.
(1 chapter per week) Heidi
Advanced Latin:
The students are using "The Perseus Project" www.perseus.tufts.edu as a source for our translations of the poet Horace. It is an online digital library for classics with texts in Latin and Greek. Dozens of authors are listed with hundreds of works. Within each work, students may touch individual words that provide several possible English meanings. It does not translate for the students, only support their efforts. So far, they have read Horace Book I, Carmina V (5), IX (9), XVI (16), and XXI (21). (1 poem per week) Heidi
Documentary Project:
My film and FATV classes are documenting an Archeological dig near Molly Ockett and Jockey Cap. So far 3 classes went over to work with the 8 scientists who are on the project. One camera crew is doing interviews with the archeologists and another is getting additional, (B-roll), video at the same time. This will be a long term project for them as there is a lot of editing and research yet to be done after all the filming is completed. We are hoping to be there filming if they in fact find some artifacts in one of their dig areas. That would be amazing since it is pretty rare. .mike
Greg and I took a few of our ESL classes to Apple Acres Farm last week. I took the iPad along and videoed at various times during the trip. As soon as we get vouchers, I'm going to buy iMovie and edit my footage into a short, action-packed video. I will show it to my class that went on the trip and is about to start working on the present progressive tense. They will write sentences about what they see themselve and their classmates doing (e.g., "She is drinking cider." "He is pretending to be a caveman and throwing a stick-javelin into the woods to kill a mammouth he is imagining whle the students around him are ducking in fear." ) Hopefully practicing the grammar point using their own real-life experiences will be more meaningful and engaging than just doing exercises from a book. Melanie
I am going to have my students create a Show Me in which they each will have a element and they will have to share the information about the symbol, atomic mass and atomic number. Then give the number of proton, neutrons and electrons in an atom and describe how they came up with these numbers. Also the will need to draw a picture of this atom show acurate locations and number of each particle. I will use this as an assessment which I can watch outside of class, and gain vauble insight to students understanding and will be able to give very specific feedback based on their explaination, not use just their final drawing and number. - Jen (I will try to share a link to one here too)
What is happening in your classroom? Please share your projects with us!
Advanced Latin:
To practice using Keynote and "grabbing" the appleTV screen, all the students created a simple presentation about an endangered species with some slides in Latin. They worked during class when they had finished other work as individuals. At the end of each month, the students present their work in The Pike Family Conference Room to anyone interested. I will try to post one here.
For the month of October, students are using an electoral map of The United States and predicting the outcome of the upcoming election based on the Latin mottoes of 5 different states. I am limiting the number of slides to 6 and the number of states to predict to 5 since I want everyone to practice presenting. I promised to post the most accurate prediction once the election occurs! Anyone is invited to the presentations, Period B on 10/29 and Period G on 10/30. (1 time per month) Heidi
Advanced Latin:
We listen to world news in Latin! yle.fi/radio1/tiede/nuntii_latini but it wont work on the iPads because it needs flash to work. The students have bookmarked the site and read along on their iPads while I plug in the school laptop to the TV Screen and some speakers. We listen at the beginning of the week and students choose a section of words to pronounce and read to me at the end of the week. The only thing that's tricky is the directions of the website (in another language that is not Latin, maybe Finnish), I just use the symbols of the speaker to play the news. (1 time per week) Heidi
Advanced Latin:
The students are investigating "Virtual History Roma" ($4.99) in class. We put the image on the TV Screen and explore one chapter per week. There are many features in the app including timelines, map overlays, 3D models, and The Bubble Viewer which puts the students inside a bubble and provides visual experinces in 360 degrees.
(1 chapter per week) Heidi
Advanced Latin:
The students are using "The Perseus Project" www.perseus.tufts.edu as a source for our translations of the poet Horace. It is an online digital library for classics with texts in Latin and Greek. Dozens of authors are listed with hundreds of works. Within each work, students may touch individual words that provide several possible English meanings. It does not translate for the students, only support their efforts. So far, they have read Horace Book I, Carmina V (5), IX (9), XVI (16), and XXI (21). (1 poem per week) Heidi
Documentary Project:
My film and FATV classes are documenting an Archeological dig near Molly Ockett and Jockey Cap. So far 3 classes went over to work with the 8 scientists who are on the project. One camera crew is doing interviews with the archeologists and another is getting additional, (B-roll), video at the same time. This will be a long term project for them as there is a lot of editing and research yet to be done after all the filming is completed. We are hoping to be there filming if they in fact find some artifacts in one of their dig areas. That would be amazing since it is pretty rare. .mike
Greg and I took a few of our ESL classes to Apple Acres Farm last week. I took the iPad along and videoed at various times during the trip. As soon as we get vouchers, I'm going to buy iMovie and edit my footage into a short, action-packed video. I will show it to my class that went on the trip and is about to start working on the present progressive tense. They will write sentences about what they see themselve and their classmates doing (e.g., "She is drinking cider." "He is pretending to be a caveman and throwing a stick-javelin into the woods to kill a mammouth he is imagining whle the students around him are ducking in fear." ) Hopefully practicing the grammar point using their own real-life experiences will be more meaningful and engaging than just doing exercises from a book. Melanie
I am going to have my students create a Show Me in which they each will have a element and they will have to share the information about the symbol, atomic mass and atomic number. Then give the number of proton, neutrons and electrons in an atom and describe how they came up with these numbers. Also the will need to draw a picture of this atom show acurate locations and number of each particle. I will use this as an assessment which I can watch outside of class, and gain vauble insight to students understanding and will be able to give very specific feedback based on their explaination, not use just their final drawing and number. - Jen (I will try to share a link to one here too)